Blake Treinen needed just 86 pitches to get through seven innings as he won his first AAA game for the Chiefs this season, 4-1. The 25-y.o. allowed just a single run on four hits with no walks and five strikeouts. Syracuse scored one in the 5th and three in the 6th to take command of the game. Brian Goodwin and Jhonatan Solano both went 2-for-4 to pace the Chiefs offense, which tallied seven hits and one walk total. Roster moves: IF Sean Nicol reassigned from Harrisburg; 1B-OF Tyler Moore recalled from Washington.

Harrisburg was outhit and outscored by one as they dropped the series finale to Binghamton, 2-1. A.J. Cole took the loss, giving up just one run on four hits and three walks while striking out three. The Senators avoided the shutout with a walk, error, and a sacrifice fly off the bat of Ricky Hague in the 7th. Cutter Dykstra singled, doubled, and walked but was caught stealing to lead the Harrisburg offense, which was held to six hits and two walks total.

Potomac scored an early run, which turned out to be the only run as Myrtle Beach took the series finale, 6-1. John Simms lost his first High-A game, giving up five runs on four hits and one walk over five innings. He struck out five. Bryan Harper followed with three innings of one-hit ball, charged with an unearned run in the 8th. Randolph Oduber, who’s been hitting .421 thus far in May, went 3-for-4 with a double and a run scored. The rest of the lineup was 2-for-26.

Lucas Giolito threw six innings and struck out seven (career highs for both) while allowing just one hit and one walk. Alas, Kannapolis jumped on Justin Thomas for two unearned runs in the 7th to take the opener, 2-1, and end Hagerstown’s seven-game win streak. It was Thomas’s third loss and third blown save. Spencer Kieboom and John Wooten both went 2-for-3 while Drew Ward drove in the lone Suns run with the only other Hagerstown hit.

For nine innings, the Municipal Stadium scoreboard was a Star Trek convention (nothing but zeroes), until the Intimidators struck for two in the top of the 10th. The Suns responded with three to walk off with a 3-2 win and split the doubleheader. The gamewinner came on a suicide squeeze as Wilmer Difo laid a bunt down on the third-base line while Brennan Middleton charged in for the score. Derek Anderson vultured the win despite coughing up two runs on one hit and two walks in the final frame. Hector Silvestre, Michael Sylvestri, and Jake Walsh combined for nine scoreless innings with seven hits allowed and 11 strikeouts.

I think you should give tips of wisdom and health to dedicated readers like PNats Fan who graciously help with the editing on days when your lazy Souldrummer does no writeups. I shall offer a tip: “The Makable Deal Theory – This theory points out the efficiency of expending your efforts in working hard to find a few makable deals, rather than working hard on an endless number of unmakable deals and clinging to the faint hope that you’ll somehow close one.” – from “Winning Through Intimidation” by Robert J Ringer

This explains my current support of the Hagerstown Suns and Syracuse Chiefs, two teams who have the possibility of making the playoffs over the Harrisburg Senators who are closer to winning a GCL title than an Eastern League playoff berth.